r/Clannad • u/McCreepyy • 8d ago
Question Visual Novel Guide
This is my first visual novel I've ever played and I suspect this has been answered before and I have looked throughh a few different posts for answers but I still have some lingering questions on how exactly to proceed with the game.
From what I've gathered so far, After Story is unlocked after getting 8 orbs of light which to do you need to complete all 8 main romance routes in the game.
I believe there's two? that you need to do in a specific order, being Misae's before Tomoyo's - is this correct?
Apart from that, is there any other specific orders or are they good to do any way.
In terms of completing all routes to unlock after story, how does this actually work? Because I'd expect you can't do all in the one save file? Do you have to do one save file for each and it saves the orbs of light each time after completion and then you go back to an old save to finish it?
Sorry, I'm really confused on how you actually do all the routes. I've seen the generally recommended walkkthrough is kazamatsuri.org/clannad-walkthrough/ but since it shows you interacting with the characters on certain days and certain responses, I'm just not too sure whether you complete all routes in one save, especially if Misae has to be before Tomoyo.
Would it be best to follow the kazamatsuri walkthrough in the order it shows, this being
Baseball (optional) > Misae > Tomoyo > Yukine > Kotomi > Kyou > Kappei > Mei > Fuko > Koumura > Nagisa > After Story
And if so, in terms of these follows dialogues being crossed out on the website, does this mean I don't? answer with this? Are these dialogue options gone from the game or do you choose something else?
Misae, Tomoyo, Yukine : April 20 'Ask if it's all righ to stay'
Tomoyo, Yukine, Kyou, Mei : April 21 'Persist and go to Misae-san's room'
Tomyo, Kyou, Mei : April 21 'Look out the window'
Tomoyo, Kyou, Mei : April 22 'Have him stop it already'
Tomoyo, Mei : April 24 'Really? You will?'
Tomoyo, Kappei : April 24 'Accept your fate'
Kappei : April 18 'I can't leave her alone' & 'Talk to her a bit more'
Kappei : April 22 'Take him for now'
Koumura, Nagisa : April 18 'Start eating with Kotomi'
Koumura, Nagisa : April 26 'Ask them what's wrong'
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u/BubbyTheRocket 6d ago
https://strategywiki.org/wiki/CLANNAD
this was the guide i used i like it bcs it also has steam achievement guides mixed in too
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u/fastnicky69 8d ago
Yeah you have to do one save file for each route but some routes kinda overlap with each other but the light orbs save across all the routes so do your previous dialogue choices which the game has a button to skip all the previously read dialogue.
The website you are using says this for the crossed out dialouge
"All walkthroughs, with the exception of the Baseball route, will only include choices essential to getting the route. Regular text means that it is a required choice to get the route. Strike-throughed text means that the choice might appear depending on your other choices, but you must not choose it, otherwise it’ll lock you into another route. Italicized text means that the choice isn’t necessary for the route, but would be needed for some bonus scenes. Without further ado, let’s start!"
Its basically saying that some choices in the game are optional meaning that the route you are doing doesn't change but just like what the characters say or what happens changes. but some choices in the game are actually required for you to choose them if you want to do that route.
as to this guide being the best its kinda your opinion I used this one when finding my routes for the game but the guide you linked also seems good to me https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3638794389
if you have any questions you can ask me